by Charlie Costello | May 3, 2013 | Blog, Featured, Portfolio
While trekking from village to village in Central Burma, we were welcomed in each village with a small greeting committee with music and gongs ringing the good news that the foreigners had arrived. As we left the village in the early afternoon, the light lit up the...
by Charlie Costello | May 1, 2013 | Featured, Portfolio
Bikes are used for all sorts of things including moving produce from one side of the market to the other as this guy was doing in Bagan. We arrived in Bagan and headed directly to the market before even going to our hotel because it was “market day” and...
by Charlie Costello | Apr 29, 2013 | Blog, Featured, Portfolio
This leather seat with rusty springs looked almost like the classic Beijinger I had in Beijing. But this was parked along with lots of others at a market in Bagan. We stopped here the first morning we arrived because this market only happens once every five days or...
by Charlie Costello | Apr 22, 2013 | Blog, Featured, Portfolio
In a beautifully restored temple complex in Bagan, I found these beautiful floor tiles inside one of the smaller buildings next to the main stuppa. I am not sure if the flower is a lotus but imagine some sort of buddhist elements in the tiles? What do you think? We...
by Charlie Costello | Apr 21, 2013 | Blog, Featured, Portfolio
At an outdoor market in Rangoon, I found this colorful women with soulful eyes selling crab and other greens in front of her bike. This market was full of color and life, the richness of the vegetables and the variety of produce was incredible despite the state of the...
by Charlie Costello | Apr 15, 2013 | Blog, Featured, Portfolio
This photo is on the cover of Burma Bikes: a journey within. It was taken in Rangoon as the morning light reached across the golden pagoda. I went there my first few days since it was only a 15 minute walk from my hotel. I could watch the monks from the many...